Fabricate – Call for Work

FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making [...]

David Bowen’s art of the onion

This Fall (2010) EKG will be exhibiting new work by David Bowen.  David’s Growth Modeling Device is currently featured in Design by Performance at Centrum voor actuele kunst en vormgeving Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium. Bowen recently won grand prize in the art division at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival. In conjunction with this award his work was featured [...]

something fun for a Monday afternoon

Creativity and innovation often trump necessity as the mother of invention. Take these two brother’s from Estonia, for example. Their website features more than a few really great font designs: handmadefont.com

“Ouroboros: The History of the Universe”

“Ouroboros: The History of the Universe”  (at the Ise Cultural Foundation in SoHo) was created by Ali Hossaini, a biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet, and a pair of video artists and programmers, Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy, a k a Sweatshoppe, who devised the 3-D effects. Read more about the exhibit [...]

“Mad Men” meets “Flash Gordon”

Megan Prelinger’s ( Prelinger Library ) new book, “Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962” is due out on May 25 by Blast Books. Prelinger’s book is inspired by a unique and potent period of space age art and graphic design featured in magazine ad campaigns of the 1950′s and 60′s and is very relevant to [...]

eatART

eatART is an art lab in Vancouver “We make audacious and improbable large-scale kinetic, robotic, and mechanized sculptures that investigate our human relationship to energy use.”

Technology and design @ V&A Museum in London

Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria and Albert Museum features the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small screen based graphics to large-scale installations. Decode explores three themes: 1. Code – as a Raw Material will present pieces that use computer code to create new designs in the same way a sculptor [...]

HeadSpace: On Scent as Design

Since 2006 Breadboard’s EKG has partnered with the Monell Center on a Scent as Art exhibition series. An interesting symposium is scheduled for March 26  at Parsons The New School for Design. HeadSpace: On Scent as Design will feature designers, scientists, artists, theorists, and fragrance industry professionals in a all-day program. Here are some links to [...]

Sweden’s 3D Printed MELONIA Shoe

Students of Stockholm’s two most prestigious design schools  collaborated to produce fashionable 3D printed shoes.  Read more at Core77 …

Live from Facebook … and NextFab’s Shopbot

Lewis Colburn I’m never going to Ikea again: made this on our ShopBot at work today: the pieces just pop out, slide together, and you’ve got a stool. We do live in the future. 3 hours ago · Report The stool featured in the picture above is actually a test for a ShopBot class that [...]